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Carefx Names Scott S. Parker to Board of Directors
Former CEO of Intermountain Health Care (IHC) Joins Board of Rapidly Growing Patient Information Aggregation Company
(Scottsdale AZ) - February 7, 2006 -- Carefx Corporation today announced that Scott S. Parker has joined its board of directors. Parker is a highly regarded industry thought-leader with extensive healthcare and operating experience.
"We are pleased that someone with Scott's strong healthcare industry experience and personal integrity will be joining the Carefx board." said Andrew J. Hurd, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "His experience in building a large, innovative and successful operation through a period of dramatic change and growth will be extremely valuable to Carefx."
"I am very excited about working with Andy and his team at Carefx" said Parker. "They have created elegant and affordable solutions for simplifying access to information, an issue that is top of mind for hospital executives. Combined with their strong strategic partnerships with companies such as IBM, Novell, Cerner and GE Medical Systems this company is very well positioned for continued growth."
Parker was named president of Intermountain Health Care (IHC) when the non-profit organization was formed in 1975. Under his direction, IHC developed into an integrated health system with more than 30 hospitals, nearly 20,000 employees and an innovative model that also incorporates health insurance plans and employed physicians. IHC has been named the country's top integrated system five of the past six years and is considered a national model. Prior to IHC, Mr. Parker led hospitals and health systems in Minnesota, Arizona and California. He served as the chairman of the American Hospital Association, president of the International Hospital Federation, chairman of the Hospital Research and Development Institute and was a trustee for the National Committee for Quality Health Care. He has also served as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, Mr. Parker was inducted into the prestigious Philadelphia-based Health Care Hall of Fame. He received his Bachelor's from theUniversity of Utah in 1960 and a Master's in hospital administration from the University of Minnesota in 1962.
About Carefx
Carefx is the only provider of an open and scalable Patient Information Aggregation platform that provides clinicians real-time access to information residing in disparate applications. Fusion from CarefxTM aids clinicians with sleek, intuitive and flexible access to patient information and satisfies IT imperatives by fully leveraging legacy investments within an open architecture. Carefx is the preferred partner to leading infrastructure and application vendors, including Cerner, GE Medical Systems, McKesson, Siemens Medical Solutions, IBM, Novell and CA. For more information, visit www.carefx.com.
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